Jose Eduardo Dos Santos

The MPLA managed to retain power in the recent elections but to win the next elections it will have to introduce economic and political reforms

The former Angolan president chose power and wealth over developing his country

The Angolan autocrat, president from 1979 to 2017, built up the wealth of his family and that of his generals at the expense of the citizens

Angolans lose faith in João Lourenço as the economy tanks and corruption persists

Law enforcement agencies are cracking down on the high profile family of former Angolan president José Eduardo dos Santos, accused of plundering revenues from the country’s vast…

Countries in political transition have very little time in which to deliver socioeconomic and political change

Angola was badly hit by the oil-price plunge in 2014

One year ago, the Dos Santos family handed the Angolan presidency over to João Lourenço. Now the ex-president’s son has been arrested

João Lourenço’s first year in office has been marked by notable reforms. If ordinary Angolans are to benefit this momentum must continue

The passing of the baton between the two men is the climax of a handover marked by barely disguised friction

Jose Filomeno dos Santos planned to siphon off $1.5-billion when he ran Luanda’s sovereign wealth fund, government says.

Jose Filomeno dos Santos has been accused of the illegal transfer of $500-million when he was the head of the country’s sovereign wealth fund

The country’s constitutional changes mirror tre​nds where incumbents have tinkered with their constitutions, but change will come

Lourenco’s manoeuvering against the nepotistical vestiges of Angola’s last president began in November with the toppling of Isabel dos Santos

In November, within three months of taking control of Angola, Lourenco sacked dos Santos’s daughter — Africa’s richest woman